https://www.mallhistory.org/files/original/b72c0d86e7b9b26efa272706506c2166.jpg 17b73e2f2bbae7518796018854ffb393 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 251 Height 493 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The white bathing beach in the tidal basin will be dismantled as soon as his force can get around to the work, Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, director of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital, said yesterday. He is required by Congress to dismantle it by July 1, 1926, and the work will require by 30 days, he said. Col. Sherrill said yesterday that he had not yet received a letter sent him by Neval H. Thomas, head of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, in which it is demanded that Col. Sherrill begin immediately to dismantle the white bathing beach. "I withheld the work of dismantling the white bathing beach when the talk of reopening it arose," Col. Sherrill said. "But now that it is settled that it will not be reopened I will tear it down. However, there is no hurry as it will require but 30 days and by congressional action must be accomplished only by July 1, 1926." In his letter Thomas told Col. Sherrill that his organization would demand a congressional investigation of the dismantling of the colored beach on the west side of the tidal basin. "As the colored people expected all through the long controversy over the local bathing beach," he writes, "(since a segregated beach has been forced upon them) you have found a novel way of defeating the plain word and unmistakable intent of Congress ordering both beaches dismantled." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White Bathing Beach Will Be Dismantled Description An account of the resource In February 1925, the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/174">Senate voted to defund</a> and demolish the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/164">white and black bathing beaches at the Tidal Basin</a>. Black residents were critical of the unequal funding and facilities at their beach when compared with the white one. In addition, physicians were concerned that the water in the basin was increasingly polluted and not safe for swimming. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>The Washington Post</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/23/1925 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920-1949 civil rights environment neighborhood work & play